Feedback & Reports

Better days fishing, slightly overcast following rain the previous night. 4 fish caught and landed weighing between 6 and 9lb. On the downside, met 2 poachers. I have spoken with Seth at WUF on the matter since.

4 Barbel

First day on the river, hot and sunny day. Not ideal conditions, river low, gin clear with lots of streamer weed. 7lb barbel caught near evening, good condition fish.

1 Barbel

River low and clear with bright sunshine didn't bode well. Chub taken on meat and the barbel on the pin with a small pellet. All fish scale perfect and fighting fit (and of a good size too). First field fine, the rest of the beat would need some serious tools to cut a swim - wild fishing indeed. Be interesting to try again with a few feet on the level.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Another nice day on this beat, river was a bit lower and clearer than last week, had one barbel early on, then had a good last couple of hours with some more barbel and a chub of 5lb 10oz.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Had a great day with my wife taking 4 of the 6 fish all on meat. All her fish took a moving bait from the same swim with no feed. It was great to watch her catch old style,I couldn't be more proud. All fish between 5&9lbs. The spam queen strikes again.

6 Barbel

Really nice day with a few fish and some others lost. Even managed a slimy eel on double pellet.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Arrived on beat at 2.30pm and fished until 8.30pm. The river was in great condition, the best it's looked this season so far. The river was carrying 5ft of extra water and dropping off nicely.

Finished with several barbel from 6lb to 9lb, all caught on feeder and pellet tactics.

3 Barbel

Arrived early morning and started to fish the feeder in the cloudy low light conditions to take 5 chub before the rain came down.
The chub stopped biting so we started to explore the rest of the fishery, which I have to say was stunning. After a few hours spent searching different swims and falling down the banks into nettles (proper boys stuff) we still couldn’t find any Barbel so headed back to base camp for a quick recharge.
I soon set out in search of Barbel again and this time came up trumps after spotting one move between two clumps of weed. I was soon set up and it wasn’t long before the first Barbel was on the bank.
Knowing that I had a well known legend “Barbless” friend with me, I did the honorable thing and let him jump into the swim. It wasn’t long before he hooked a Barbel, surely this was it he was going to finally catch a Barbel after two seasons of trying, but alas it parted company after cutting him off on a rock. Myself and K fell about laughing as our still “Barbless” friend lit up the valley with a torrent of obscenities.
Thankfully after continual resting of the swim he managed to bag his first Barbel and tranquility returned to the valley.
The fish kept coming for the rest of the afternoon and between the 3 of us we managed 8 Barbel and 11 Chub with at least 4 other lost fish. None of the fish were weighed, however the chub were around 3 and 4lb and the Barbel ranged from about 4lb to one which was knocking on the door of 10lb.
A great day was had by all and we would defiantly book this beat again.

8 Barbel, 11 Chub

4 Barbel from the first swim you can get to and 3 chub from the shallow fast water. Tried the top croy but not a touch. Left early because of the rain.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Bottom fishing low clear water.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub